Re[4]: Compressing Export Dumps

I did such exports sequentially (using cron jobs) therefore i had no
problems with it.
Try to look at locks maybe your sessions are blocking each other.
Did you use parameter CONSISTENT=Y ?

Saturday, May 18, 2002, 6:03:18 PM, you wrote:

SW> Hi Sergey and all,
SW> Tried to impliment the on-the-fly gzip but some breakages!!
SW> I created 7 different pipes and 7 different export jobs.
SW> The first job run manually completed successfuly but all the
SW> croned jobs are stuck -the daemon fired them off but nothing is taking place!
SW> The Log files are empty and the zipped dumps are no where to be seen!
SW> A "ps -ef|grep exp" shows that the jobs are active. It's now coming to 10
SW> Hrs.
SW> Any known issues with multi-occurences of pipe-files/gzip etc ?

SW> The command mknod p does the same thing as mkfifo (it just calls mknod
SW> p).
SW> I did large exports many times using gzip. So, it's your decision
SW> whether to use compress or gzip. I did not have any troubles
SW> at all. You don't have to remove the pipe and can easily reuse it
SW> whether you want.

SW>> I'm looking at the two options, yet to ascertain whether second method
SW> works
SW>> with gzip.
SW>> Do you know of any known troubles (Block/File corruption) with first
SW> method ?
SW>> Do I have to "rm yourinfo" or I can re-use the piping file ( as in
SW> ascript) ?

SW>>> Hi all,
SW>>> My export dumps are too big (80 GB) for my filesystem and I'm looking
SW> for
SW>> a
SW>>> way
SW>>> to compress them on the fly -ie without taking *.dmp to disk first but
SW>>> straight *.dmp.gz
SW>>> Anybody with an idea on how to archive this ?
SW>>> Thanking you,

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